Hesse-Freizau

Hesse-Freizau (1080-1805) was a German principality of the Holy Roman Empire and a vassal of Hesse-Kassel. It was ruled by the Freizau family, and in 1776 Johan Adolf von Freizau sent an army of 4,500 Hessians to fight in the American Revolutionary War in order to pay off his debts. In 1793 he purchased Hesse-Freiberg from the Freiberg family but in 1805 it was absorbed into Hessen during the Confederation of the Rhine reform of Napoleon.